Five months prior to the March, 2019 crash, Lion Air Flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea near Indonesia.
Two months prior to that, Ed Pierson warned his bosses at Boeing that such disasters were going to happen. Pierson was a manager overseeing production of the 737 MAX, a new commercial passenger plane that was in high demand. So high, Boeing started cutting corners, keeping the assembly line moving, the airlines happy and the money flowing in.
Among the most prominent figures in “Flight/Risk” is Dominic Gates, longtime aerospace reporter for The Seattle Times whose coverage of the jet’s troubled history earned him and three other reporter colleagues a Pulitzer Prize in 2020.
Ed Pierson is the whistleblower whose urgent warnings about Boeing’s production problems were ignored by higher-ups, though the crashes seemed to prove him prescient about the likely outcome of the company’s rush to market.
When the Ethiopian crash came less than five months later and the Federal Aviation Administration quickly ordered the plane grounded, the unraveling of the company’s fortunes commenced. Boeing’s downward spiral — which took a toll on the company’s stock price, devastated its sales
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